ScienceBasedMed @ScienceBasedMed

Science-Based Medicine is a group blog exploring issues and controversies in the relationship between science and medicine sciencebasedmedicine.org Joined October 2009

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ScienceBasedMed @ScienceBasedMed

10 months ago

@sayerjigmi @RWMaloneMD Poor Sayer Ji. He's just parroting an old alternative medicine trope that quacks have long weaponized against pharmaceuticals and that @SecKennedy is now weaponizing against vaccines. sciencebasedmedicine.org/what-do-mrna-v…

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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon

2 years ago

Seriously, though, shame on @bmj_latest/@bmj_company for having published @thackerpd's dishonest "journalism" on the @pfizer RCT of its #CovidVaccine. Former BMJ editor @fgodlee should be forever embarrassed for having published it./end respectfulinsolence.com/2021/11/15/wtf…

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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon

2 years ago

OTOH, he has admitted one of his errors, grudgingly, as this screenshot shows. Amusingly, he is either oblivious that @AliNeitzelMD is obviously trolling him or intentionally ignoring the troll in order to feed his credulous readers a narrative that he's somehow "won."

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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon

2 years ago

An actual honest and ethical journalist would have added a note saying that he had altered the text to correct an error and explaining what the error had been. Of course, as a journalist @thackerpd appears to be neither honest nor ethical.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon

2 years ago

Well, @thackerpd is the conspiracy monger gift that keeps on giving. Today, I noticed that he had quietly altered the text to remove the error without mentioning that he was correcting an error. Here are the before-and-after screenshots.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon

2 years ago

Yesterday, I wrote about how @thackerpd had dishonestly smeared @AliNeitzelMD as somehow "not a physician." In my post, I noted that Thacker was so sloppy that he seemed to think that I reside in Wisconsin when my state of residence is Michigan. respectfulinsolence.com/2024/04/04/hac…

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ScienceBasedMed @ScienceBasedMed

2 years ago

Antivaxxer @stkirsch apparently wants to make like Dino and Luigi in a classic Monty Python sketch and threaten @TeWhatuOra with releasing protected health information from the stolen database that he has. respectfulinsolence.com/2023/12/20/rab…

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(((Dorit Reiss))) @doritmi

3 years ago

@OKAYFINE_Music @ScienceBasedMed @han_francis Imagining that the people correcting anti-vaccine misinformation are taking money from big Pharma to do it will not make anti-vaccine misinformation less wrong; just make you wrong on another thing. I hope you read the post.

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(((Dorit Reiss))) @doritmi

3 years ago

@OKAYFINE_Music @ScienceBasedMed @han_francis Again, wanting to imagine that the people correcting you are paid isn’t going to make you less wrong. We took this picture in a public street to make fun of antivaccine shill claims. Maybe we should have realized people who fall for antivaccine misinformation won’t get this.

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Orac @oracknows

3 years ago

While I'm at it, you might enjoy this post too. 😂 respectfulinsolence.com/2023/07/05/now…

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Orac @oracknows

3 years ago

You've commented exactly once on my blog, and I let it publish after my antispam automoderation had held it up because you were a new commenter. Here's the link. respectfulinsolence.com/2023/06/14/ste…

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Orac @oracknows

3 years ago

I'm using a dormant and rarely (now) used account because my main one was blocked by Mr. Kirsch and I want him to see this: Dude, you were *never* blocked on my blog. Ever. Nor did I delete *any* attempt by you to comment on any of the posts I've written about you.

Steve Kirsch @stkirsch

3 years ago

Proof that @skepticalraptor is corrupt. I posted a challenge on his blog and I just checked now and he DELETED it rather than allowing it to be posted. This means that both Gorski (@gorskon) and Reiss (@doritmi) and the other anti-anti-vaxxers must now speak out against this

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Australian Skeptics @AustSkeptics

3 years ago

No evidence IV vitamin drips can treat infertility sciencebasedmedicine.org/no-evidence-iv… by @PharmacistScott via @ScienceBasedMed

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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon

3 years ago

The hallmark of a good parody account is that I wasn't quite sure whether this was a parody until I clicked on the handle and checked to see if it was a parody account or not.

Steve Kirsch @stkirsch

3 years ago

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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon

3 years ago

Holy hell. I'm having flashbacks to antivax 2006!

Steve Kirsch @stkirsch

3 years ago

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(((Dorit Reiss))) @doritmi

3 years ago

ProtocolKills.com: Repackaging an old narrative about conventional medicine versus alternative medicine for #COVID19 sciencebasedmedicine.org/protocolkills-… via @sciencebasedmed @gorskon

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(((Dorit Reiss))) @doritmi

3 years ago

Retracted papers about #COVID19 are more highly cited than they should be, but not because they should not have been retracted; if anything, not enough bad papers are retracted. sciencebasedmedicine.org/retracted-pape… via @sciencebasedmed @gorskon

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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon

3 years ago

The latest big thing among all the hippest COVID-19 quacks and antivaxxers is nattokinase, which is claimed to bust clots and "detox" spike protein. respectfulinsolence.com/2023/02/25/nat…

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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon

3 years ago

Precisely. And they don’t seem to realize that they are using *exactly* the same arguments antivaxxers used to use about measles and pertussis vaccines with respect to portraying a vaccine-preventable disease as “natural” and virtually “harmless” and the vaccine more dangerous.

Jonathan Howard MD @19joho

3 years ago

@MattBlye @TotalCytopath @gorskon It’s all a theoretical debate for him, like discussing what would happen if you fell into a black hole. Doctors who work with sick kids grasp the real world consequences. He’s more interested in feeling “special” and “heterodox.” Just another sheltered do nothing talker.